Vocabulary 3.15-3.21
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- alacrity
- cheerful willingness,readiness,liveliness
- aversion
- strong dislike, repugnance,antipathy
- involuntary
- not done of one's own free will, automatic,unintentional,spontaneous (ant. voluntary)
- loath
- unwilling,averse,disinclined,reluctant
- loathe
- have an intense aversion to, detest
- volition
- will
- acclivity
- upward slope (declivity)
- acme
- highest point, pinnacle, summit
- apogee
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1. farthest point from eath in the orbit of a heavenly body (pedigee)
2. highest point, culmination - climactic
- arranged in order of increasing force or interest (anticlimatic)
- consummate
- perfect, superb, carried to the highest degree
- eminence
- high rank
- eminent
- standing out, notable, famous
- ethereal
- of the heavens, celestial,airy, delicate, intanglible
- exalt
- lift up with joy, pride, etc., elate (humiliate)
- precipice
- very steep, overhanging place, cliff
- precipitous
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1. steep as a precipice
2. hasty, rash - preeminent
- standing out above others, superior
- sublimate
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1. redierct the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially an d morally higher channels
2. purify, refine - sublime
- elevated, noble, exalted, uplifting
- vertex
- farthest point opposite of the base, as in a triangle or pyramid, apex
- zenith
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1. highest point, culmination (nadir)
2. point in heavens diresctly overhead - abject
- deserving contempt, sunk to a low condition, wretched
- abysmal
- deep, profound, immeasurably great
- abyss
- bottomless, immeasurably deep space
- anticlimax
- aburt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous, comedown, bathos (climax)
- chasm
- deep breach,wide gap or rift
- declivity
- downward slope (acclivity)
- dregs
- most worthless part, sediment at the bottom of a liquid
- earthy
- coarse, low
- humble
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1. of low position or condition
2. not proud, unpretentious, modest, courteously respectful - humiliate
- lower the pride, position, or dignity of; abase, degrade, mortify (exalt)
- humility
- freedom from pride, humbleness, lowliness, modest
- menial
- low, mean, subservient, servile
- nadir
- lowest point (zenith)
- plumb
- get to the bottom of, ascertain the depth of, fathom
- profound
- very deep, deeply felt, intellectually deep
- ravine
- deep, narrow gorge worn by running water
- filial
- of or like a son or daughter
- fraternal
- of or like a brother
- genealogy
- a person's or family's descent, lineage, pedigree
- gentility
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1.good manners
2. gentry, upper class - kilth and kin
- friends and relatives, kindred
- maternal
- of or like a mother
- nepotism
- favoritism to relatives by those in power
- paternal
- of or like a father
- progenitor
- forefather
- progeny
- offspring, children, descendants
- sibling
- one or two more children of a family
- aroma
- pleasant odor, bouquet
- aromatic
- sweet-scented, fragrant
- fragrant
- having a pleassant odor, pleasantly odorus or odoriferous
- fusty
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1. stale smelling, musty, moldy
2. old-fashioned - incense
- substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned
- malodorous
- ill-smelling, stinking, fetid, unpleasantly odorus
- noisome
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1. offensive to smell, disgusting
2. harmful, noxious - olfactory
- pertaining to the sense of smell
- pungent
- sharp in smell or taste, acrid, biting, stimulating
- putrid
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1. stinking from decay
2. extremely bad, corrupt - rancid
- upleasant smell or taste from being spoiled or stale
- rank
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1. having a strong, bad odor or taste, offensively gross or coarse
2. extreme - reek
- emit a strong disagreeable smell, be permeated with
- scent
- get a suspicion of
- unsavory
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1. unpleasant to taste or smell
2. morally offensive